Staff at NHS South Sefton Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) have thanked clinical and IT staff for their hard work to make sure patient services were maintained without any disruption following the recent cyber attack.

IT staff worked hard to recover computers that were attacked by the virus and the general practices saw patients with appointments throughout the week. Those people who had appointments with community services were also reassured that community services had introduced a temporary system to make sure that patients could be seen as normal.

Dr Andrew Mimnagh, chair of NHS South Sefton CCG, said:“Staff across the NHS in Sefton worked extremely hard to ensure that patient care was maintained and that no services were forced to close.

“Many staff literally worked round the clock the weekend it happened to ensure that any service disruption was kept to a minimum and we are really grateful for that.

We’d like to say a personal thank you to all the staff who gave up their own time and for their commitment and support to keeping local NHS services up and running.”